Performance Flashcards
1
Q
What are the three Landing Errors?
A
- Wheel-Barrowing
- Bounce
- Porpoise
2
Q
What is Wheel-Barrowing?
A
- When the weight of the aircraft becomes concentrated on the nose wheel
3
Q
What is a Bounce?
A
- When the aircraft’s wheels briefly lose contact with the runway
4
Q
What is a Porpoise?
A
- A bounced landing that results in a series of bounces
5
Q
What is Air Density?
A
- How dense the air molecules are
6
Q
What are the characterisitcs of Air Density?
A
- It increases as temperature decreases
- It decreases as altitude increases
7
Q
What is Density Altitude?
A
- It is pressure altitude corrected for non-standard temperature
8
Q
What are the characterisitcs of Density Altitude?
A
- Performance decreases as density altitude increases
9
Q
What is Air Pressure?
A
- The force exerted on a surface by the air above it
10
Q
What are the characteristics of Air Pressure?
A
- Air pressure increases as air density increases
11
Q
What is Pressure Altitude?
A
- The height above the standard datum plane (29.92in of mercury)
12
Q
What are the characteristics of Pressure Altitude?
A
- Performance increases as pressure altitude decreases
13
Q
What is the Center of Gravity?
A
- The point of which the aircraft would balance if it were suspended
14
Q
What are the characteristics of CG?
A
- It is affected by the placement of the load and the load itself
15
Q
What is the Center of Lift?
A
- The mathmatical average of all the upward acting forces
